The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-31
Contradictory and Unsatis-
factory Reports.
THE CROPS IN THE SOUTH.
Evidently Embezzlement-H Them
squeal-A Heavy Failure-sher-
mans Little Denial.
The Ute War.
DENVER, Colo, August S0.-The FOL-
lowing was received to-day:

lowing was received to-day:
To Colonel Chapman, A. A. G., Denuer5
Phil. Foot has just come in. He left
dispatches, as a courier left half an hour
Rangely reached Meeker Just Before Foot
left, who reports that the Indians were NOV
ing east towards Rangely, where the troops
been renewed. Major Leslie had parley
yesterday. The Indians reported fifteen
killed. and that six will die soon They
said: Damn cowboys, to fool Utes, put on
soldiers clothes" They demanded return
the horses would be given up if Colorow
and the two indicted Indians were sur
rendered. This they positively rejected
and the pow WOW broke up. The courier
with dispatches comes on the road with q
change Of horses. Foot came through on
the trail. The courier ought to be In shortly.
Foot says there were about 100 Indians in
the fight, but during the night and the fol-
lowing morning they received reinforce
ments and the country was alive with them.
(Signed) BROOKS,
DENVER, August Authorization has
lust been received that all Indians have
heen taken to the reservation by the
troops, except a few old men end
women who were left behind to care for
the wounded, who are unable to- be
moved. The report, however, is not
confirmed. Governor Adams arrived
at Camp Adams last night. General
Crook is expected some time to-day.
Adams has sent courier to Colorow,
asking him to meet himself and Crook
in peace council.
WASHINGTON, August 30-General
Terry telegraphs from. Chicago to the
War Department to-day, requesting
that Indian Agent Byrnes be instructed
to move from his reservation all in
truders. The civil and military author
tiles of Colorado, in their excitement,
may forget that the State writs de not
extend beyond the limit of the State,
and precipitate general outbreak of
the reservation Indians by crossing the
border.
Telegraph instructions were sent this
afternoon by the President to Governor
Adams, to enforce the action of the
civil authorities strictly within the limit
of the State.
General Terry telegraphs from Chi
cago to the Acknowledgement, that
he has received a dispatch from
Commando Randlett, dated Fort Du-
Chesne, saying ColoroW and his follow
ers are now at Ouray agency and man.
ifest disposition to remain on the
reservation. The militia and cowboys
hold hundred horses and thousand
sheep and goats belonging to Colorow
and Chipeta, Ouray's widow. This
stock was grazing on land claimed by
the Indians as belonging to their re-
servation, and where they had been
permitted by their agent to live for
years. Colorado settlers have claimed
the locations there and have succeeded
in driving the Indians in. Colorow has
not in this trouble been on the war
path and has made his way to the re-
servatiou, avoiding hostilities as far as
possible.
WAsH1NGToN, August 30.-A telegram
from Indian Agent Byrnes to the IL.
dian commissioner says: Colorow and
his followers are at the agency, and do
not want to fight. Major Leslie, who
fired on the Indians in the border res
ervation, took possession and run off
thirty head of Indian horses. The COW
boys are breaking these horses for their
own use. The Indians, when attacked,
were on peaceable hunting expedition
and believed they had right to hunt on
these lands. He requests the War De-
partment to instruct the commander of
Fort DuChesne to recover the hors ss
and other property, and return them to
the reservation. The Indian Commits
sioner has instructed Byrnes to remove
from the reservation all persons
found thereon contrary to law, to
restore to the Indians all the property
abandoned by them, and that the mill
tary would be ordered to cooperate in
enforcing the instructions. The Score
tary of the Interior has telegraphed
Governor Adams to deliver to Indian
Agent Byrnes the horses and other prop
erty taken by Major Leslie.